Report: Criminal who raped, murdered teen boy in 1989 due to be released as part of Gaza deal
A Palestinian prisoner convicted of the 1989 rape and homicide of an Israeli teenager is ready to be launched from jail as a part of the ceasefire and hostage launch deal, the Haaretz day by day reports, regardless of the court docket ruling on the time that the crime was not an act of terrorism.
In April 1989, 13-year-old Oren Baharami, from Bat Yam in central Israel, was lured to an deserted room within the Armenian Monastery in Jaffa by Gaza resident Ahmed Mahmed Jameel Shahada.
Shahada and an confederate then raped and murdered the teenager and left his physique within the monastery, the place it was discovered days later.
The homicide was deemed to have been criminally motivated, that means that it was not an act of terror carried out for nationalistic causes, and Shahada was sentenced to life in jail.
Regardless of not being charged with terrorism, Haaretz studies that Shahada was deemed eligible for launch beneath the ceasefire and hostage launch deal between Israel and Hamas, which can see 250 Palestinian safety prisoners stroll free in trade for the 48 hostages held by terror teams in Gaza.
The report notes that on the record of prisoners to be freed, Shahada is the one prisoner with none identified hyperlink to a terror group.
Talking to the information outlet, Baharami’s mom says she is struggling to grasp the choice to launch her son’s assassin.
“The homicide wasn’t acknowledged as terrorism, and over time, nobody ever up to date us,” she tells Haaretz. “It takes my breath away.”
